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while cutting taxes every year. i have dedicated much of my adult life to revolutionize our schools so that school serves children and parents. you must know this, all of our successes at the state level, and all of the work being done in the private sector can be undone if we continue to lose presidential elections. we will forfeit our ability to chart a better future for our republic. this would be tragic in every sense of the world. as you know, sam is the former ceo of ibm. probably the best ceo in america in the last decade. sam is also a fantastic human being. he's easy to talk to, but he is also a visionary and a true leader. he told me an amazing story. withs deeply involved assembling the team that created watson, a supercomputer that can understand natural language with all the ambiguities associated with human speech. watson can read through more than 200 pages of text to find an answer in less than three seconds. what you do when you have this kind of amazing capability at your fingertips? do you know wh
while cutting taxes every year. i have dedicated much of my adult life to revolutionize our schools so that school serves children and parents. you must know this, all of our successes at the state level, and all of the work being done in the private sector can be undone if we continue to lose presidential elections. we will forfeit our ability to chart a better future for our republic. this would be tragic in every sense of the world. as you know, sam is the former ceo of ibm. probably the...
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we lowered the overall taxes for the first time in years. taxes on homes have gone down in each of the last two years. [applause] but when it comes to jobs under my predecessors terms wisconsin lost 300,000 jobs and just 10% of our employers were headed in the right direction. today we're gaining jobs and 93% of the employers says that wisconsin is heading in the right direction. we can leave with an optimistic message. simply put in we showed in our election who do you want in charge, the big government or do you want the hard working taxpayers, the hard working taxpayers win out and they will win out over and over again. in america, we need to show an optimistic message that we're not standing with the big businesses of america, we're standing with the hard-working taxpayers and this is the message that can resonate throughout this country. [applause] now, in addition to being optimistic we need to be relevent. what do i mean by that? in politics we talk in words like sequesters and fiscal cliffs. people in wisconsin, they talk to me about
we lowered the overall taxes for the first time in years. taxes on homes have gone down in each of the last two years. [applause] but when it comes to jobs under my predecessors terms wisconsin lost 300,000 jobs and just 10% of our employers were headed in the right direction. today we're gaining jobs and 93% of the employers says that wisconsin is heading in the right direction. we can leave with an optimistic message. simply put in we showed in our election who do you want in charge, the big...
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thought the policies were right on domestic policy not so much the spending, but on domestic policy, the tax cuts and so on. here is a clip and a little bit 8:48:58:09pm of a roast one night at the press club. well, i am flattered to be here following jack and talking about bob novak and the two people in journalism who i learned the most from and admired the most over the years. >> i spent the last few days doing the exhausting job of reading bob novak columns, going back many, many years, it was time-consuming, not very exhilarating and i discovered that bob after reading your columns, so many of them, i have dom the conclusion that your words will be remembered long after shakespeares are forgotten. but not until then. >> what did you the 506-page plus book was ever written in washington? it may be the best book. i can think of one better. i will get to that in a moment. because, and when we get young people, interns, and young reporters at "the weekly standard", i tell them. read bob novak's book because it will tell you are more about american politics and washington over the last 50 ye
thought the policies were right on domestic policy not so much the spending, but on domestic policy, the tax cuts and so on. here is a clip and a little bit 8:48:58:09pm of a roast one night at the press club. well, i am flattered to be here following jack and talking about bob novak and the two people in journalism who i learned the most from and admired the most over the years. >> i spent the last few days doing the exhausting job of reading bob novak columns, going back many, many...
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one was a billiard table which the first lady had purchased using the tax dollars of honest working men. somehow this very un-american quality that people wanted to read into her. on the other hand, there are these wonderful bizarre letters confirming her addiction to chocolate of louisa catherine adams was a chocoholic. i say being married to the sourest man in washington, she took her sweets where she could find them. apparently she had her sons and others buy chocolate shells by the barrelful and she writes about the medicinal qualities of fudge. i mean it was as if she took it where she could find them. that's pretty pathetic. >> i would say that the shells are probably not bon-bons. she is not sitting on her sofa munching. they're the cocoa bean shell. you would steep them in had water. it would be like coffee and you would add milk. she was interested in the medicinal qualities of it. i wouldn't go too far on john quincy's sourness. there is affection between the two of them and great love. otherwise she could have stayed in quincy. >> after they lost, i think, the daughter, is it
one was a billiard table which the first lady had purchased using the tax dollars of honest working men. somehow this very un-american quality that people wanted to read into her. on the other hand, there are these wonderful bizarre letters confirming her addiction to chocolate of louisa catherine adams was a chocoholic. i say being married to the sourest man in washington, she took her sweets where she could find them. apparently she had her sons and others buy chocolate shells by the...
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thought the policies were right on domestic policy not so much the spending, but on domestic policy, the tax cuts and so on. particularly on foreign policy. the war in iraq, and so on. flows the big issues. i i agreed with them. what i said on fox and what i wrote as well reflected that. >> you talked about whitaker chambers and the book once as one of the best books your father had written. did you think the same thing about it? >> oh, yeah. >> but you also said that one of the best books ever written was the book that robert novak wroter that the end of the life. here is a clip you from and a little bit of a roast one night at the press club. well, i am flattered to be here following jk and talking about bob novak and well to the two people in journalism who i learned the most from and admired the most over the years. >> i spent the last few days doing the exhausting job of reading bob novak columns, going back many, many years, it was time-consuming, not very exhilarating and i discovered that bob after reading your columns, so many of them, i have dom the conclusion that your words will
thought the policies were right on domestic policy not so much the spending, but on domestic policy, the tax cuts and so on. particularly on foreign policy. the war in iraq, and so on. flows the big issues. i i agreed with them. what i said on fox and what i wrote as well reflected that. >> you talked about whitaker chambers and the book once as one of the best books your father had written. did you think the same thing about it? >> oh, yeah. >> but you also said that one of...
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tax rates for corp. -- tax breaks for corporate jets, tax subsidies for big oil companies that are making record profits. tax incentives for american companies to ship our jobs overseas. the c.b.c. budget will close these wasteful corporate loopholes. third, we look for savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. and we take this approach because of the sensitive nature of our fragile economic recovery. you can't just cut the budget with a meat cleaver without hurting the american people. and lastly, the c.b.c. balanced approach stands up for important programs like social security, medicare, and medicaid that have nothing to do with the economic mess that we find ourselveses in right now. now we don't have a short-term deficit crisis in america. that's what the independent objective economists have concluded. the speaker of the house of representatives has acknowledged we don't have a short-term deficit crisis. the chairman of the budget committee just yesterday acknowledged that we don't have a short-term deficit crisis. we've gained six million jobs over the last four-plus years but we
tax rates for corp. -- tax breaks for corporate jets, tax subsidies for big oil companies that are making record profits. tax incentives for american companies to ship our jobs overseas. the c.b.c. budget will close these wasteful corporate loopholes. third, we look for savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. and we take this approach because of the sensitive nature of our fragile economic recovery. you can't just cut the budget with a meat cleaver without hurting the american people. and...
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it's a plan for tax reform. it's a plan to open up our energy stores that we have here so we can be energy independent. we have vast amounts of energy reserves we need to tap so we can put people to work, bring down gas prices, stretch paychecks further. we've got to control our spending appetite. we've got to reform programs like medicare so they're solvent. we've got to reform our safety net so it works to get people on their feet. that's what this budget does. in a nutshell, instead of spending $46 trillion over the next 10 years, as we're currently poised to spend, we spend $41 trillion. instead of growing spending 5% a year we grow at 3.4% a year. with all the predictions of doom and gloom and how evil and terrible and horrible or budget is, it increases spending every year by 3.4% a year instead of 5% a year. the difference is we balance the budget. the difference is we let families keep more of their own take-home pay. the difference is we make sure our kids inherit a debt-free future. the difference is w
it's a plan for tax reform. it's a plan to open up our energy stores that we have here so we can be energy independent. we have vast amounts of energy reserves we need to tap so we can put people to work, bring down gas prices, stretch paychecks further. we've got to control our spending appetite. we've got to reform programs like medicare so they're solvent. we've got to reform our safety net so it works to get people on their feet. that's what this budget does. in a nutshell, instead of...
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it was borne by the tax payer. would be the numbers that would be done by the private sector. >> one of the critical things craig has said is we do not have a coordinated response where real using the same standards. you have the official flood maps -- where you are using the same standards. you have the official flood maps that would govern the investments we would make post- disaster. we are trying to use these new maps to ensure it not just fema is using the latest information but across the government we are doing that. and our first block grant noticed we required that any time you are rebuilding more than 50% and you have to use these new maps even if they're not going to be official. we are looking at insurance. on provides insurance lending. we have this new information. we're not rebuilding to a old standard that will cost us more. >> this is how we incentivize people to build in areas that are going to get wiped out. >> thank you for being here. i apologize for being absent during the testimony. i want to
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taxes every year. nearly 30 million middle income americans would lose their health insurance because of the repeal of the affordable care act and tens of millions of the would lose coverage because of ryan's plan to gut medicaid. we can do better. it would destroy the commitment we made to our nation's seniors, by turning medicare into a voucher program. it would shift the rising cost of health care onto those very american who was already suffered deep financial shocks in the recent fiscal crisis. many of them have lost their homes, lost their health insurance, lost their jobs, lost equity in their homes, lost their savings, and yet we want the ryan -- and yet the ryan budget would break another promise to them. in a profoundly cynical mood the ryan budget would revoke those provisions of the affordable care act that would expand access to care while keeping in place the revenue generated by the act. the ryan budget also guts investments in science. job tructure and all the growth as well as the futu
taxes every year. nearly 30 million middle income americans would lose their health insurance because of the repeal of the affordable care act and tens of millions of the would lose coverage because of ryan's plan to gut medicaid. we can do better. it would destroy the commitment we made to our nation's seniors, by turning medicare into a voucher program. it would shift the rising cost of health care onto those very american who was already suffered deep financial shocks in the recent fiscal...
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the only tax that increase was a temporary tax that was relief given to reduce the payroll tax to try to give a shot in the arm to the economy. that was always designed to be a temporary tax. as a practical matter, the president has, in fact, kept his pledge. it is ironic. polls show the american people thought that with the american recovery act that their taxes increase when, in fact, 94% of the people saw a reduction. what the president promised, he did, but a lot of people did not understand it and thought their taxes increased. people that look at the facts understand that they have received tax reductions. i personally think we have gone a little overboard. we will have to rebalance the scales, but the president kept his promises on taxation, notwithstanding what you're caller said. you're caller is wrong. beach on twitter says the private sector will always be a better fiscal that the anything run by the government -- fact, says this person. we are talking about the budget with earl blumenauer as the house begins work on the budget put out by paul ryan last week. "the hill" rep
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they achieve that balance by not raising taxes, while not raising taxes. i think that's very important, too. we certainly aren't undertaxed in this country. my friends on the other side clearly believe that we are. they are going to offer multiple tax increases in all their budgets. i like the budget that does not require tax increases. finally, both these budgets, the republican study committee budget and the republican budget, come to grips with the reality that we have to -- reform entitlements. we have our own way of doing that, but there could be others. unfortunately our friends on the other side are largely silent about that important choice. as my friend, mr. woodall, mentioned in his remarks, the ryan budget, is hardly a radical budget. it's going to increase spending every single year over a 10-year wind heo by about 3.5%. the main democratic alternative is about 5%. can't we live at 3.5% and have a balanced budget in 10 years as opposed to go to five with higher taxes and not balance the budget within that 10-year window? again i'm proud of my d
they achieve that balance by not raising taxes, while not raising taxes. i think that's very important, too. we certainly aren't undertaxed in this country. my friends on the other side clearly believe that we are. they are going to offer multiple tax increases in all their budgets. i like the budget that does not require tax increases. finally, both these budgets, the republican study committee budget and the republican budget, come to grips with the reality that we have to -- reform...
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tax reforms we would never allow tax reform to hide a tax increase. periodically politics and -- this a tax reform the what they mean is they want to raise taxes. two ways to raise income taxes, raise the rate or broaden the base to bring the rates down. the pledge says no raising the rates and, two, if you want to get rid of deductions and credits, that is great but bring the rates down dollar for dollar. paul ryanhat does. host: chris on the republican line. you are on what grover norquist. caller: thank you for c-span. norquist, i think there is a big problem. perception is everything when it comes to marketing and it is the perception that the democrats are able to get across. because the democrats, they know their audience, they know who they are pandering to, they know who they are selling to. and they treat them like stupid children. and it works. i will give you an example. you remember when the bush tax tom- first came out and shall and dick gephardt -- tom daschle and dick kept part, the minority leaders, did not have anything, but yet they
tax reforms we would never allow tax reform to hide a tax increase. periodically politics and -- this a tax reform the what they mean is they want to raise taxes. two ways to raise income taxes, raise the rate or broaden the base to bring the rates down. the pledge says no raising the rates and, two, if you want to get rid of deductions and credits, that is great but bring the rates down dollar for dollar. paul ryanhat does. host: chris on the republican line. you are on what grover norquist....
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they don't want any kind of revenue, any kind of taxes. some are ok with tax reform. but if you're going go through the text couple of years as a lawmaker you're dealing with a president who is liberal. i think that is an open question for the movement and for the party. >> rusty, i will start with you. if you were advising the conservatives within the republican party, what would you tell them to do for what robert is saying here, in terms of getting on the right course to solve this problem but, two, recognize you have elections coming up in a year and half. you have to deal with the political reality as well. what would you advising people that are coming out with republican budgets to do? >> we have to cut the budget. but we have to have a message -- >> that is not simple and you know it. >> of course it is simple. there are so much waste and fraud -- of course it is simple. >> it is understand but not simple to do. >> it is more simple than anything they are not doing, they are not trying to. the problem is -- >> you have to face that fact. the people who are goi
they don't want any kind of revenue, any kind of taxes. some are ok with tax reform. but if you're going go through the text couple of years as a lawmaker you're dealing with a president who is liberal. i think that is an open question for the movement and for the party. >> rusty, i will start with you. if you were advising the conservatives within the republican party, what would you tell them to do for what robert is saying here, in terms of getting on the right course to solve this...
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and taxes. it will structure our system for economic growth. we will stop hemorrhaging jobs overseas and bring american jobs back to these shores. it's one thing if we lose jobs because of low wages overseas. we don't ever want to compete in that arena. it's another if we lose jobs because our government is inefficient, bloated and expensive. and finally, it protects our most vulnerable. it protects our young people. you know, i agree with then senator obama when he said it was immoral to continue to incur these massive debts. of course, when he said it, since he said it, our debt is multiples of what he was decrying at that time. we are piling mountains and mountains of debt on our children and our grandchildren to fuel our addiction to spending and it's got to stop and it's got to stop now. i'm proud to stand for this republican budget and i urge its passage. i give back the rest of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van holl
and taxes. it will structure our system for economic growth. we will stop hemorrhaging jobs overseas and bring american jobs back to these shores. it's one thing if we lose jobs because of low wages overseas. we don't ever want to compete in that arena. it's another if we lose jobs because our government is inefficient, bloated and expensive. and finally, it protects our most vulnerable. it protects our young people. you know, i agree with then senator obama when he said it was immoral to...
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she has to take her after-tax income, which is much reduced because she first has to pay taxes on that income, and then she has to go out and buy health insurance without any government subsidy in the market. well, isn't this interesting. government tells her what policy she has to get. the cheapest policy under the bronze plan, under the subsidies is $20,000 a year. so where, tell me, mr. speaker, and i should ask the novet united states who came up with this brilliant idea, where, mr. speaker are poor women supposed to go to buy health insurance they can afford? not in the obamacare regime. where is she supposed to go when her very sick child has lost his health insurance from the employer that his daddy provided for him because his daddy had a job. his daddy had health insurance. that young child had health insurance, was very sick with a disease, he was very sick. insurance, t on his daddy had a job, his a daddy has insurance. now under obamacare, they may not give him insurance. this is devastating for moms across america if children across america, for senior citizens across amer
she has to take her after-tax income, which is much reduced because she first has to pay taxes on that income, and then she has to go out and buy health insurance without any government subsidy in the market. well, isn't this interesting. government tells her what policy she has to get. the cheapest policy under the bronze plan, under the subsidies is $20,000 a year. so where, tell me, mr. speaker, and i should ask the novet united states who came up with this brilliant idea, where, mr. speaker...
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we are also tax payers. if you take 20% of your budget and cut it, these are the people paying it your taxes and the next thing you tell them is next year at tax time, you have lowered their budget, how does that make up for all the money that gets lost to the government that they need right now to fix these situations? guest: sequester was an idea of both sides thought was so bad it would never happen and then it did. it was meant to be a threat at the end of report in process. the super committee did not happen and they never struck a deal. now a sequester is here on both sides want it for different reasons. republicans want cuts and with a can and democrats want to show how bad cuts hurt. and show that cutting government so quickly is -- has repercussions. dated from texas, go ahead. i'm not familiar with a whole lot of politics in washington. i am on social security disability. goes beyond just fixing the budget. and obamahealth care care, as far as going beyond fixing the budget like health care. i live
we are also tax payers. if you take 20% of your budget and cut it, these are the people paying it your taxes and the next thing you tell them is next year at tax time, you have lowered their budget, how does that make up for all the money that gets lost to the government that they need right now to fix these situations? guest: sequester was an idea of both sides thought was so bad it would never happen and then it did. it was meant to be a threat at the end of report in process. the super...
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so wete the tax code first tax things we do not like. things like wall street speculation tax. ,hat is why i ran for president to give broader choices. it is called "the seventeen solutions" in paperback. video,e have a short and. comment. caller: it's no secret that the democrats and republicans stray .d away very hard from issues if you could analyze tea partiers abandonment of them. guest: money and politics. i spoke to high-ranking democrats and the house. agree it should be and they agreed. one of them said because we would raise less money. damagingan extremely influence on both parties. money corrupt politics. organized labor does not have to worry about minimum-wage. their workers get more than minimum wage with the two-ti ered situation. they are not putting in for one of television ads on the air the with the old union's used to do. too sat besideet with least worst choices -- we get too satisfied with least worst choices. youour least worst voter, do not hold the least worst candidate. the other guy is worst so you lose your voting power. they do not have to give you
so wete the tax code first tax things we do not like. things like wall street speculation tax. ,hat is why i ran for president to give broader choices. it is called "the seventeen solutions" in paperback. video,e have a short and. comment. caller: it's no secret that the democrats and republicans stray .d away very hard from issues if you could analyze tea partiers abandonment of them. guest: money and politics. i spoke to high-ranking democrats and the house. agree it should be and...
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haven't raised that tax in 20 years. so if we just indexed it to construction cost inflation, and indexed it to the economy, we could issue bonds, pay it off by that increment on the gas tax. it would be about a penny a year a gallon. i was driving to work one day they were changing the cards up there. they were raising it a nickel a gallon as i drove by. a penny a gallon. i think most americans would be willing to pay for that if they knew it was going to save 3.5 -- or create 3.5 million jobs and put this country back on track and get rid of some of the delays and congestion and detours and all the other problems we have. so let's pay attention to this scorecard. to this report card. if your kid came home with a card like this you'd do something about it. congress better do something about it. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. it was mr. speaker, june, 1950, when the north koreans decided they would invade their neighbors to the south, south korea. the wa
haven't raised that tax in 20 years. so if we just indexed it to construction cost inflation, and indexed it to the economy, we could issue bonds, pay it off by that increment on the gas tax. it would be about a penny a year a gallon. i was driving to work one day they were changing the cards up there. they were raising it a nickel a gallon as i drove by. a penny a gallon. i think most americans would be willing to pay for that if they knew it was going to save 3.5 -- or create 3.5 million jobs...
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we propose reforming the tax code. we propose ending special tax breaks and closing tax loopholes like the mortgage deduction for vacation homes and yachts, eliminating the deduction for derivative traders and eliminating incentives for sending american jobs overseas. we propose taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, raising about $900 billion over 10 years. these changes, mr. speaker, would generate much-needed revenue. the country has begun to recover. we see it every day in the news and we're moving in the right direction. we are beginning to recover from near financial ruin. but our recovery is fragile and desperately needs a shot in the arm to accelerate our economic recovery. instead the republican-controlled house voted -- thought it best to poison the economy and throw away the antidote. according to leading economists, once sequestration is full yimplemented, america is going -- -- fully implemented, americans are going to lose $2.-- 2.14 million jobs. those are two million jobs that exist now
we propose reforming the tax code. we propose ending special tax breaks and closing tax loopholes like the mortgage deduction for vacation homes and yachts, eliminating the deduction for derivative traders and eliminating incentives for sending american jobs overseas. we propose taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, raising about $900 billion over 10 years. these changes, mr. speaker, would generate much-needed revenue. the country has begun to recover. we see it every day in...
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tax cuts have nothing to do with the budget. so you have to work was on this. is there an appropriate ratio for safety for doing staff and detainees? >> yes. >> if there is a budget cut, does that will affect that ratio? >> well, obviously, we have to maintain the facilities with the appropriation that we have. were we to furlough individuals that would affect our ability to apprehend and detain people safely. my intings is not to furlough our offerss. >> if you have less budget, you will have less people and you can retain your people. is arithmetic? >> it is. it gives us by the congress and the sequester direct us to take a 5% cut to that custody operations. that's roughly $110 million. i can't find that level of resource -- >> i think what some are trying to tell you is you can maintain a ratio with less money. haveu have less money you less people and therefore, you can detain fewer detainees and we're talking arithmetic, it is not philosophy. a lot of focus is on the people's release is based on their prior offenses. can you explain to me what the crime ra
tax cuts have nothing to do with the budget. so you have to work was on this. is there an appropriate ratio for safety for doing staff and detainees? >> yes. >> if there is a budget cut, does that will affect that ratio? >> well, obviously, we have to maintain the facilities with the appropriation that we have. were we to furlough individuals that would affect our ability to apprehend and detain people safely. my intings is not to furlough our offerss. >> if you have...
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one was a billiard table which the first lady had purchased using the tax dollars of honest working men. somehow this very un-american quality that people wanted to read into her. on the other hand, there are these wonderful bizarre letters confirming her addiction to chocolate of louisa catherine adams was a chocoholic. i say being married to the sourest man in washington, she took her sweets where she could find them. apparently she had her sons and others buy chocolate shells by the barrelful and she writes about the medicinal qualities of fudge. mean it was as if she took it where she could find them. that's pretty pathetic. >> i would say that the shells are probably not bon-bons. she is not sitting on her sofa munching. they're the cocoa bean shell. you would steep them in had water. it would be like coffee and you would add milk. she was interested in the medicinal qualities of it. john dn't go too far on quincy's sourness. there is affection between the two of them and great love. otherwise she could have stayed in quincy. >> after they lost, i think, the daughter, is it true he
one was a billiard table which the first lady had purchased using the tax dollars of honest working men. somehow this very un-american quality that people wanted to read into her. on the other hand, there are these wonderful bizarre letters confirming her addiction to chocolate of louisa catherine adams was a chocoholic. i say being married to the sourest man in washington, she took her sweets where she could find them. apparently she had her sons and others buy chocolate shells by the...